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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
Answers to Correspondents.

Maggie.-1. No; yellow satin is not
suitable for street wear unless you have
it dyed. 2. You should always ring the
door-bell when visiting, and not use a
pass-key.
Il. B. Grim your velvet skirt
with founces of white Hamburg edg-
ing, and slit the waist up the back, SO
it can be buttoned in front.
Daisy.-White chalk is good for red
elbows; also stove polish. If we were
you, we would have the graduating
dress made with sleeves to come to the
wrist. This will prevent red elbows
attracting attention.
Clara B.-1. No; seal-skin sacques
will not be worn all summer. 2. Sash
ribbon should be a yard wide, and all
wool. 8. We do not answer imperti-
nent questions by mail.-LJe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
GETTING RID OF THEM.

A Republican Organ Mad Because Presi-
don't Cleveland Has Turned Out Incom-
petent ONCE Holders and His Open En-
emies.
In its diatribe::against PRESIDENT Cleve-
lands Administration, the other day,
the New York Tribune was especially
indignant at the slaughter of the in
nocents" in Government offices, by
which large number of Republican
incumbents were laid out in the cold.
Of course, it would be a vain task to
make such hide-bound partisan sheet
understand that Democrats have rights
and claims that aDemocratic Admins
tration should respect, and that, after
they had been carefully excluded from
all participation in the Administration
for twenty-tour years, it was only nat
ural they should ask fair share of the
offices.
The granting of their request was
not in the least a violation of the Civil
Service law, since the indispensable
requisite of capability and fitness was
exacted in all instances. The Repub-
licans had been so long in supreme con-
troll of all the offices of the Government
that for a long time they insisted upon
claiming pretty much every thing with
in the gift of the President, and ran to
the Republican Senate on every occa-
sion for protection. The meanness and
ingratitude of that body were conspic-
uously shown when it impudently in
terfered with the prerogatives of the
Executive, last summer, for the sake of
tickling the partisan susceptibilities of
the politicians and organs of its party.
1t made no account of the moderation
! shown by the President in not sus-
pending every Republican Office holder,
! as he had the power to do, in retalia-
ton for the prescription exercised
against Democrats for twenty-four
years.
He acted with rare conservatism and
caution, making his selections with the
utmost care and yet keeping in mind
the necessity of having in the admin
istration of the Government the aid of
those who sympathized with him in
feeling. in principle and in purpose.
He knew that he could not reasonably
expect the hearty cooperation of au
| army of civil officers, who hail for years
| held places under former AdministrR-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
1he Gatnu 2fiuOfrat.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The trustees of Harvard will estab-
lish an astronomical station in the
Southern Hemisphere.
"A Chinese Young Mems Christian
Association building has been erected
at Honolulu, at cost of 5000, about
$4,000 being; contributed by the Chi
nese themselves.
The play-room Of the children's
playhouse shortly to be built in San
Francisco, and for which Senator
Sharon left $4,000. will be thirteen
hundred feet square.
DIR. Matthew B. Riddle, Of Hart
ford Congregational Seminary, has ac-
cepted the chair of New Testament
Literature and Exegesis made vacant
at Allegheny by Prof. Warfield's call
to Princeton.
-Methodists in England propose
raising the sum of 1926, 900 as a royal
jubilee offering, the same to be devoted
| to the education and sheltering Of des-
titute children in connection with DR..
Stevenson's homes.
Thirteen members of a Baptist
Juvenile Missionary Society in Halifax,
England, whose subscription is limited
to q halfpenny, must have been indus
trious last year, as they collected
;e22 5s. 3d., equal 10, ,692 halfpennies.-
United Presbyterian.
The capital of the New York
branch of the Methodist Book Concern
now amounts to $780, 900. and its
l lao mn
The Western branch has a capital of
100000, and its sales last year were
$870, 0,O00.-M 2. Examiner.
Senator Stanford has decided upon
his plans for his California university.
The buildings will be grouped in a
quadrangle, will be constructed of CAL
ifornia sandstone, and will be Moorish
in design. Work upon seven of the
buildings win be begun this summer.
-All the training schools for nurses
in Philadelphia are free. This is one
profession for women that is not over
crowded, and where women can earn
good wages. The chief qualifications
are good health, good temper, general
intelligence and fair common school
education.
| Princess Sarah Winnemucca is still
successfully running her school at
Lovelock, Nev. The Piute children are
said to be apt scholars. The school
house is on the ranch of Chief Naches,
and the little boys are to be taught how
to cultivate the soil. The moving
spirit in these educational projects is
the princess. She has long been stead
lily striving for the advancement of her
people.
The stories of clergymen who GO
through the service for one auditor call
to mind case in Eastern Connecticut
The one auditor in this case was a
young lady, member of the clergy
mans farnily. He not only went
through the entire service for her sole
benefit, but read to her notice of a
; change in the time for meeting of the
young women's guild which she had
herself handed to him. Boston Globe.
i The University of Bologna has de-
cided to celebrate its 800th anniversary
in the spring of 1883. The exact date
of its foundation is not known. Au-
thorities on the subject agree that an
important school was established al
Bologna in the eleventh century. AT
forwards the University took greaI
place as the chief center for the study
of jurisprudence, and there also anat
omy was the first time scientifically
studied.-M. =. Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
Rupture Between Railroad Lines.

CHICAGO, April THE failure to agree
upon a basis for the division of rates to and
from Mississippi river points, on Missouri
eau sed a complete rupture between the
lines east from Chicago and those west from
this city. All through billing Of freight be-
tween points in the East and Missouri river
points VIA Chicago has been stopped. The
Eastern roads charge local rates to Chicago
and local rates are added from Chicago and
Western points, which, of course, make the
rates via Chicago materially higher than
via St. Louis. Besides, all freight from the
East has to be rebilled at Chicago, which is
an additional embarrassment. The roads
running west Of Chicago are determined, il
is said, to resistthe demands of the Eastern
lines with all the means at their command
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
LATER NEWS.

THE Maumee Rolling Mills, at Toledo, o.,
were destroyed by fire on the 10th.
AT Kilgore, KY, Alex Valance shot and
instantly killed Alex McElvain. He claims
it was an accident.
FIRES in the forests of Brown County,
Ind, have destroyed an immense amount
of timber, two dwellings and barn.
Mr.. BLAINE is steadily improving, and
the crisis is believed to have passed. DR..
Mudd has returned to st. Louis.
The members of the Temple Israel, of
st. Louis, have subscribed $500 to the
Henry Ward Beecher monument fund.
The winter wheat in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas and Missouri is reported
considerably injured by the continued dry
weather.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad has compromised all claims for
injury to life and property by the Rio dis
aster for s64,616.9z.
The Canadian customs officials on the
border have received new and strict Or
ders from the Government in relation to
the examination of the baggage of passen-
gers coming into Canada by railway from
the United States.
AT the conference of the Latter Day
Saints at Kirkland, o., on the 10th, Jos.
Smith preached sermon against the Nor
mon doctrine of polygamy.
AN inmate of the County Infirmary at
Millersburg, O., has inherited $1,000.
A COMPANY has been organized in Day.
ton, O., to bore for gas near the Soldiers
Home.
JOHN HOGAN was killed near Rockford,
| ILL.,, by vicious stallion which he was ex-
hibiting.
THE new Kansas liquor law makes il
necessary for a man desiring to open a
drugstore to have twenty-five women
signers to the petition, and any person
who buys liquor must go before a notary
| public and make affidavit as to what use
he will make of it, and that it is not in
tended for a beverage.
| JOHN L. RAYMOND, the comedian, died in
Evansville, Ind, early on the morning OF
the 10th, after brief illness.
A. R. CATLIN shot and killed a burglar
entering his house through a window al
Jamestown, N. Y.
THE junction Iron-works at Mingo, o..
closed down owing to increased freight
rates occasioned by the Interstate com
merce law.
The Cincinnati Exposition Commission
ers have determined that the Centen
NAL Exposition shall be held ir
buildings in Washington Park, along
the line of the canal, and in
the Music Hall buildings. The general
building in Washington Park is to be il
the form Of q cross, 600 feet north anC
south, 400 feet east and west, and $50 feet
in width to a large central dome to cover
Tbs iRks.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
There is now ample evidence tha

There is now ample evidence that
the use of oil may be of considerable
service in lessening the effect of danger
Gus seas. In one case the '.slick"
made by the oil extended thirty feet to
windward, and the United States Hy-
geographic Office concludes that the oil
is of use when the vessel is reaching
ahead at the speed of eight or nine
knots, with beam wind and sea-
Frank LeSlie's Weekly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14

Miss Anne Oppenheim argues that
hair is animal matter, and therefore
concludes that bald-headed men are
the most intellectual, 'they having,
through the exertion of their brains,
exhausted all that is animal in their
nature" This explodes the prevalent
rumor that bald-headed men are inva-
riably married to women with high
tempers and nimble fingers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14

The farmers of South Carolina
have concluded that they can no longer
raise rice with profit. 1t is very diff
cult to obtain reliable labor for the
rice fields. During the last few years
several other cereals have come into
use in the place of rice. and the de-
mand for it has increased Cincinnat,
Times,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
When the Boston & Providence

When the Boston & Providence
railroad was built, the opposition to
railroads was so great that location for
it was refused throught the principal
villages. They might have been made
stations, but did not choose to be. So
the old road does not touch the old
villages of Dedham, Canton, ,Stoughton,
Foxborough or Attleborough. Rival
villages have of course grown up
around the stations in those towns,
and branches have been run to the
other villages. es.-Boston Transcript.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

The cockroach is always wrong
chicken.-Rarsford Sunday Journal.
Many man who thinks he is going
to set the world afire, finds, to his sor-
row, that somebody has turned the hose
on him.-M Y. Ledger.
Degrees in excellence are oftener
marked by degrees in effort than by de-
grees in talent, and the recognition of
this truth is the basis of much that is
best. United Presbyterian
The fact that man has not had
his hair cut for ten or twelve years
need not necessarily imply that he is
eccentric. He may be bald.-York
Penn. Dispatch.
Don't see so much of you lately
as we used to, Dick" mo, no; fact
is, reckon you don't see quite SO much
of me; you see I've been little short
this month. .''-Brooklyn Eagle.
Fond Mother-Well, Bessie, now
that you have seen your cousin Walter.
what do you think of him? Did he
leave pleasant impression? Bessie
Oh, yes, mammal! he kissed me-
LoveN Citizen.
Somebody estimated that every
man who lives to be sixty years old.
has spent seven months buttoning his
shirt-collar. Thirty years more ought
to be added for hunting up the collar
button.-Baptist Weekly.
Down on the Style
I'm down upon the style, Mary,
Which makes your hat so high;
The man behind you can not Sec
There's murder in his eye.
New poets call you angel,
With taffy you are fed,
But whoe' 'er saw an angel
With a turret on her heads
| -Neu York Journal.
Little Things.-Springs are little
things, but they are sources of large
| streams; a helm is little thing. but it
governs the course of ship; bride is
little thing. but We know its use and
power; nails and pegs are little things,
but powerful for good or evil. Think
of this and mind the little things.
"A smooth-faced high school youth
was recently directed by the teacher of
natural science to press to his face q
| glass tube which had been rubbed with
silk. whereupon this dialogue ensued:
Teacher: swell, James, what sensa-
tions do you experience? James:
.Nothin' much. except feel my whis-
kers crackin'." Christian at Work.
-"Look here. waiter" said man
in city restaurant, the other day. sis
there any difference in your roast
lamb and roast mutton? don't detect
any," .'Oh. yes," said the waiter.
"You will notice that yesterday, when
you had roast lamb. l gave you q
twenty-fve-cent check. To-day. when
you had roast mutton. gave you .
twenty-oent check. There's the differ
snss. -Propidsnes Jexrnak
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
EoRElcN INIELLIcENcE.

The Belgian Chamber of Deputies has
passed, by a vote Of SO to 9, the bill permit
ting the Free Congo State to issue a lottery
loan to the amount Of 15O, ,O00, 600 francs.
The great permanent barracks at Alder
shot, England, were nearly destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Fully seven eighths of the
buildings were consumed, and what remain
are so damaged as to render them useless.
At Montreal, Can, on the 9th ten war
rants were issued against BARRIERS and
saloonkeepers for exhibiting pictures of
"Adamless Eden" The penalty is impris-
onment for a period not exceeding two
months.
The town Of Kuty, in Austrian Galicia,
has been almost entirely destroyed by an
incendiary fire, which rendered thousand
persons homeless.
The barkentine Susan, Captain Ryan,
from st. Johns, N. F., for Barbados COLI
ded with an iceberg few days ago off Cape
Broyle, and sank in half an hour. The crew
Of eight men, including the Captain, took
to the large boat, which capsized and the
Captain and five men were drowned. The
other two were rescued in an exhausted
condition by the bark Muriel
Returns issued by the London Board OF
Trade show that the imports during the
month of March increased e1, 300, 900 as
compared with the same month last year,
and that the exports increased 9490, 900 as
compared with March of 1886.
A dispatch from Baku, Russia, states
that gigantic naptha fountain burst on
the 7th near that place. Oil, sand and
enormous stones were carried to a height of
$50 feel. An extensive petroleum lake has
formed in the vicinity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14

The mocking bird is perfect
plagiarist in the feathered world; he
initiates almost all songsters. even
the nightingale
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
Philip Karner lived the life of s

social recluse in East Greenbush, n.
Y, and died alone and apparently in
agony. 1t was not until his will was
read distributing an estate of $780,
600 that his relatives became inter-
ested, and there are now nine lawers
representing fifty-two heirs contesting
the win
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-14
volver and shot Joseph, breaking his arm.

volver and shot Joseph, breaking his arm.
He then went to his room and shot himself
through the heart.
8. w. Morrison, of Chicago, who was one
of the Rogers crew in the ill-starred jean
cite expedition, was accidentally killed
on the 9TH near Valley, Ia, while duck
hunting.
The California wheat crop is estimated
at about two-thirds of last years yield, or
not over 600 tons.
Near Bedford, H., on the 7th rear col
lision Of freight trains fatally injured Con-
dnctor Ealy and Mrs. Corder Mrs. Noah
Pritchett and daughter were seriously
hurt.
Alvin Hill, son of the president of the
Adams County National bank of Decatur,
Ind, and G. w. Archbold, dry goods mer-
chant of Pleasant Mills, that State, regis
tered at hotel in Chicago on the 7th. Both
went to bed in the same room, after blow
ing out the gas. The next morning Hill
was found dead and Archbold just alive.
The latter was restored to consciousness
with much difficulty.
Peter NJ. Morrissey, whose term as mem
ber of the st. Louis Municipal Assembly
expired few days ago, has been found
guilty by Federal jury of receiving illegal
votes. Morrissey is a prominent Demo
last November.
Measles in an aggravated form is cpl
demic among the factory employees at
Brookside, a suburb of Knoxville, Tenn.
There have been sixty cases in fifteen
houses, twelve OF which proved fatal. With
in week six children died in one family.
At Harrisville, Va, boiler in the saw
mill of William Morris exploded on the Sth,
killing j. Scott, g. w. Williamson and an
unknown man, and injuring three Others
The three-year-old son of James Mills, of
Norwalk, O., while playing about the yard
at his home on the Sth, accidentally fell into
a pile of burning rubbish and was fatally
burned.
Mrs. Billion, her two daughters and a
farm employe named Weaver, living at
Chico, Cal, were seated at supper on the
Sth when the door suddenly opened and
Hoah Henry, the Chinese cook, opened fire
on the party with a rife. At the first shot
Weaver fell with a bullet through his
shoulder. As Mrs. Billion turned to see
whence the shot proceeded, she received a
bullet through the heart, killing her in
stantly. The murderer then fed. A party
Immediately started in pursuit, and if
caught he will be lynched.
The official figures for Mayor at the re-
cent municipal election in Cincinnati are
Stevenson, Labor, 1887; Isaac B. Matson,
Democrat, Il, ,858.
John F. Hayes, a colored attorney of Will
mington, O., was recently denied a meal by
two restaurants in Cincinnati, and sued for
damages. He recovered one cent damages
against Harff & Cramer, frst-class place,
and on the 8th was awarded S25 against
Myers & Ludecke, who keep smaller and
more common place.
At Davis City, Ia, on the 8th Edward
Cummings shot and fatally wounded his
wife, and then put a bullet through his own
head, dying instantly. The couple had pre-
viously separated on account of quarrels,
she going to her fathers. Her refusal to
return to him led to the tragedy.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
Trustees sale.

TTNDER and by virtue of a certain deed OF
~ trust executed on the 29th day of July.
1885, by @. 4. Vance and others to the nder-
Shelby co inty, in book No. i62, page "a,
etc., to which refe renee Is here IN sde, default
in tho payment Of the indebtedness thereby
secured having been made, and at the ro-
quest OF the benefciaries therein. We will, on
Saturday, April 23, 1857,
at the southwest corner of Main and Madi-
son streets, in the Taxing District Of Shelby
county, Tennessee, within legal hours, SELL
to the highest bidder, for cash, the following
descr' bed real and personal property,to Wit:
First-Thirty- eight hundred and ninety
shares (3s90l o the capital stock Of the Qua
dslupe y Calvo Mining Company Qncorpo;;
rated in Tennessee), par value one hundred
dollars each. This stock will be sold in lots
of leo shares, or $1,000 each.
SecOnd-Also, one hundred shares OF san Q
stock, subject to claim of one Heattie, nowin
ThirdIAlso. tho following described real
estate, situated in Shelby county, Tonnes
see, viz: being the southeast corner of the
intersection Of the Shelby County. turnpike
with Mclean avenue, containing four acres,
@. +. Vance from the estate of Isaac Heylon.
Also, lots No. FIVE, six, seyea and eight OF
the McGrath subdivision, containing nye
ac1es each, and situated on the O. st OF Me-
of said McGrath sutd vision, bounded on the
south by the Shelby County turnpike, con-
tanning four and ono half acres, adjoining
the above lots on the north. Also, lets No,
256, 66, ISL, Al, 80, and 2l4, as laid down on
the original ap and survey of the town OF
Corinth, in Mississippi.
Sales will be mad. OF this property in the
order in which it is descr bed.
Title believed to be good, but we will seh
and convey only as trustees,
Memphis, Tenn, March Z, 1872.
DAVID II, I0STON,
U:M MILLER, nm
LUKE Z. WRIGHT,
TrnsteAa.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
Unfortunate Italy.

Italians complain that theirs is
severely visited country-not in the
sense of its being overruu with for
eiguers, for to these it owes a fifth OF
its annual revenue, but in the sense
of its continual subsection to vista
tions, atmospheric aud telluric. What
with floods, earthquakes aud cholera
explosions, the last FIVE years in Italy
have certainly been prolific of death
and disaster beyond the usual proper
ton o! humanity. In 1882 the mum
dations in the Venetian Territory
and in the two Sicilies left fearful
tale of ruin and misery. In 1883 the
earthquake at Cassamicciola reduced
a garden island of the Mediterranean
into a sombre, silent waste. in 1851
the most terrible outbreak of cholera
within living memory swept the
Italian seaboard from the Riviera to
the Messina straits, alighting with
such force on Naples as in one night
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
AN INSURANCE VIEW OF BEER
DRINKING.

We are surprised to note that
some of the foreign insurance
journals have been copying the alb
surd conclusions of one j. Thomann,
in pamphlet recently published in
New York to show by statistical
figures that beer is the healthiest
drink known" That writer de-
clares, as the result of his investiga-
tions, that "the risks incurred in in
surfing the lives of habitual beer
drinkers are less by 40 per cent. than
the ordinary risks of such transac-
tons" Thomann simply proves what
he did not start out to prove, that
the robust men employed in the
breweries, who drink from forty to
fifty glasses of beer daily, remain in
robust health for some years by
virtue of their large amount Of vital
force and tenacity; not by virtue of
beer, but 10 spite of it. We have
closely watched the heavy beer
drinkers in this community, with
reference to their mortality ratio,
for more than twenty years,
and our observations show that out
of every 100 who saturate them
selves in this immoderate way, not
more than FIVE out of every 100 pass
the age OF 80. Those that
escape Bright's disease Of ur@mic
poisoning become victims of cir
rhosis or fatty degeneration, or
erysipelas, or appoplexy. One or
other of these fatal diseases invaria-
bly, gives the finishing touch to the
splendid physique" about which
Thomann rants long before the
period Of natural expectation. If
beer drinkers choose to satisfy their
thirst with their favorite beverage,
that is one thing; but if they are led
by Thomann's lying statistics into
the belief that beer will prolong
their lives, or that life companies
can be fooled into acceptance of
walking beer barrels as healthy
risks. that is quite another.